LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 The location is fictional although believed to be modelled on Rostock. Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo –...

Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of the waning colonial world in Egypt during the mid-20th century, this debut historical novel by Jasmin Attia is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set...

Matt joins the outback harvest trail so that he can get another year added to his visa. When he arrives to find that drink, drugs and sex are just as easy to come by as they were on the...

It was supposed to be paradise. For one group of friends, it’s a study abroad program like no other: a month-long adventure filled with sunshine, whirlwind romances, and all-night parties. But it isn’t long before their trip of a...

“I have done bad things too, you know…” When softball player and media-type Jay Best gets involved with influencer Karin, a woman half his age, she offers him a thrilling escape from his humdrum life. Whip-smart, sexy and a...

“You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we’d gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open...

Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: “The Nose,” a savage satire of Russia’s incompetent bureaucrats; “Old-Fashioned Farmers,” a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,”...

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania...

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons...

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready to find out...